Noor

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2003

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 NOO

Noor

Summary: Sharing a personal perspective on the past three decades of world history, Queen Noor talks frankly of the many challenges of her life as wife and partner to the monarch, providing both an intimate portrait of the late King Hussein and a moving account of their public role.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Books 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NOOR, QUEEN Noor

Woog, Dan

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alyson Books 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.53 WOO

Poor, Nigel

Summary: "From the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast comes this illuminating view of prison life, as told by presently and formerly incarcerated people. The United States locks up more people per capita than any other nation in the world--600,000 each year and 2.3 million in total. The acclaimed podcast Ear Hustle, named after the prison term for eavesdropping,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 POO

Woog, Adam

Summary: Discusses children's book author Roald Dahl including his childhood, his time spent in the military, his marriages and children, his books and screenplays, and the film and stage versions of his books.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Press 2005

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB DAHL WOO

Odom, Leslie

Summary: Leslie Odom, Jr. burst on the scene in 2015, originating the role of Aaron Burr in the phenomenon Broadway musical "Hamilton." Since then, he has performed for sold-out audiences, sang for the Obamas at the White House, and won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. Before Odom landed the role Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical Hamilton, he put in years of hard work as a singer and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ODO

Boot, Max

Summary: A biography of Edward Lansdale, the CIA operative. Boot chronicles his rise and fall as a proponent of a visionary "hearts and minds" diplomacy in Vietnam who was ultimately overruled by the American military bureaucracy, which favored bombs and troop build-ups over winning the people's trust. "The legendary Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), a covert operative so roguish that he was said to be the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANSDALE, EDWARD BOO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LANDSDALE BOO

Roem, Danica

Summary: The first openly trans person elected to a U.S. state legislature discusses her lonely and closeted childhood and how she re-wrote her own future by deciding to run for office.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROEM, DANICA ROE

Abram, Norm.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 690.837 ABR

Soon, Chad

Summary: "This illustrated nonfiction book for middle grade readers tells the story of how Larry Kwong became the first player of Asian descent in the NHL."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB KWONG CHI

Groom, Winston

Summary: "When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained the stupendous problem of how to establish a workable democratic government in the vast, newly independent country. Three key Founding Fathers played significant roles: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton. Their lives and policies could not have been more different; their relationships with each other were complex and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 GRO

Groom, Winston

Summary: Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle were heroes of the aviation age. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of World War I through the heroism of World War II and beyond. Doolittle, a brilliant aviation innovator, led the Tokyo Raid to retaliate for Pearl Harbor; Lindbergh, hero of the first solo flight across the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 629.13 Groom 2013

Blom, Onno

Summary: "A captivating exploration of the little-known story of Rembrandt's formative years by a prize-winning biographer. Rembrandt van Rijn's early years are as famously shrouded in mystery as Shakespeare's, and his life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist of his age? How in short, did Rembrandt become Rembrandt? Seeking the roots...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN BLO

Groom, Winston

Summary: Groom tells the intertwined and uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall. These three remarkable men-of-arms who rose from the gruesome hell of the First World War to become the finest generals of their generation during World War II redefined America's ideas of military leadership and brought forth a new generation of American soldier. Against the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 GRO

McDonnell, Patrick

Summary: "Imbued with the creativity, artwork, and heart of Patrick McDonnell, this all-new graphic novel love letter features the classic Marvel super heroes including the Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Black Panther, and Spider-Man, and is the synthesis of McDonnell's positive, inspirational sensibility and Marvel's blockbuster brand. Using the Marvel Universe as avatars,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2023

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MCD

Tóibín, Colm

Summary: "Colm Tóibín begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to university--a wide-eyed boy from the country--and where three Irish literary giants also came of age: Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce. Elegant, profound, and riveting, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 820 TOI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 TOI

Hook, Peter

Summary: The bassist for the band Joy Division, the godfathers of alternative rock who reinvented music in the post-punk era, recounts how four young men from Manchester rose from the punk scene to create music that would define a generation.

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Publisher / Publication Date: It Books 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 HOO

Cohen, Noam

Summary: Chronicles the rise of Silicon Valley as a political and intellectual force in American life and its libertarian vision of a hypercompetitive society without the protection of unions, government regulations, or social welfare programs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 COH

Moor, Robert

Summary: "In 2009, while thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that lie beneath our feet: How do they form? Why do some improve over time while others fade? What makes us follow or strike off on our own? Over the course of the next seven years, Moor traveled the globe, exploring trails of all kinds, from the miniscule to the massive. He learned the tricks of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508 MOO

Tóibín, Colm

Summary: "From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 TOI

Groom, Winston

Summary: "In this exciting, meticulously researched narrative, best-selling author and historian Winston Groom returns to tell one of the most monumental stories of the twentieth century. It is the tale of three remarkably different men, joined in a mission to end World War II and restore order. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin redefined a generation and transformed its political...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 GRO